Debeli,

Here is what you want to do.

1. Create the Ubuntu LAMP app droplet.

2. Use putty or an ssh client to access console and set your passwords. ( I find the web interface handy in a pinch, but a bit finicky).

3. Once logged in run mysqlsecureinstallation (it is suggested in the mtod) and set your mysql password to what you want.

4. Follow this article from Digital Ocean (except skip the part about downloading and copying WordPress of course).
   http://c3p.me/1vn6JQQ

5. chmod 777 on the /var/www/html directory to run importbuddy.php.

6. Import as per usual.

7. Test things out and then use the clean-up option from importbuddy.php.

8. chmod 755 on the var/www/html directory.

You should be good to go.

@tamerca2011 no problem. If everyone shared their little findings through struggles, the world would be a better place!

Ha !

I have just done a restore using BackupBuddy - the ImportBuddy section.

What rubbish !

It has taken 26 hours, yes 26 hours to restore a simple woocommerce site with 5460 products roughly. And then it crashed !!

FATAL PHP ERROR: type => 1
message => Maximum execution time of 120 seconds exceeded
file => C:\Inetpub\vhosts\mysite.com\httpdocs\importbuddy\classes\wp-db.php
line => 1823

So no soft-landing or message to say restart or whatever. No mention of how to continue if that is at all possible. But just a Fatal termination. After 26 hours !

This would be a joke if it wasn’t so serious.

It’s easy to Backup, but obviously when it comes to actually needing to do a Restore - it’s a big Fail to BackupBuddy. Pathetic !!

Have you used Updraft plugin

and change the Maximum execution time in php.ini file

login to putty and go to > etc > PHP > 7.2(your version) > Apache/lightspeed/nginx > php.ini